Transitions and Transformations : : Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course /

Transitions and Transformations : : Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course / / ed. by Jason Danely, Caitrin Lynch.

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Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bateson, Mary Catherine,
Brown, Diana De G.,
Cole, Jennifer,
Danely, Jason,
Gamburd, Michele Ruth,
Guyer, Jane I.,
Lamb, Sarah,
Lynch, Caitrin,
Martin, Lindsey,
Norwood, Frances,
Robbins, Jessica C.,
Rodríguez-Galán, Marta B.,
Salami, Kabiru K.,
Shea, Jeanne L.,
Wentzell, Emily,
HerausgeberIn:
Danely, Jason,
Lynch, Caitrin,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • SECTION I FRAMEWORKS
  • Introduction TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS Paradigms, Perspectives, and Possibilities
  • 1. CHANGES IN THE LIFE COURSE Strengths and Stages
  • SECTION II BODIES
  • 2. NARRATING PAIN AND SEEKING CONTINUITY A Life-Course Approach to Chronic Pain Management
  • 3. VENTING ANGER FROM THE BODY DURING GENGNIANQI Meanings of Midlife Transition among Chinese Women in Reform-Era Beijing
  • 4. “I DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE MY FATHER” Masculinity, Modernity, and Intergenerational Relationships in Mexico
  • SECTION III SPATIALITY AND TEMPORALITY
  • 5. SHIFTING MORAL IDEALS OF AGING IN POLAND Suffering, Self-Actualization, and the Nation
  • 6. A WINDOW INTO DUTCH LIFE AND DEATH Euthanasia and End-of-Life in the Public-Private Space of Home
  • 7. TEMPORALITY, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE LIFE COURSE IN AN AGING JAPAN
  • SECTION IV FAMILIES
  • 8. “I HAVE TO STAY HEALTHY” Elder Caregiving and the Third Age in a Brazilian Community
  • 9. GRANDMOTHERING IN LIFE-COURSE PERSPECTIVE A Study of Puerto Rican Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren in the United States
  • 10. CARE WORK AND PROPERTY TRANSFERS Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka
  • SECTION V ECONOMIES
  • 11. PERSONHOOD, APPROPRIATE DEPENDENCE, AND THE RISE OF ELDERCARE INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA
  • 12. MEMBERSHIP AND MATTERING Agency and Work in a New England Factory
  • 13. LIFE COURSES OF INDEBTEDNESS IN RURAL NIGERIA
  • Afterword ON GENERATIONS AND AGING “Fresh Contact” of a Different Sort
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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